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Listening to music can be a lot of fun and a source of happiness, and some research shows that listening to music can make you healthier. According to many scientific studies, listening to music has many health and psychological benefits. Music can relax the mind, energize the body, and even help people cope better with pain.

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The idea that music can influence your thoughts, feelings, and behavior is not surprising. If you've ever gotten excited while listening to your favorite fast-paced rock song or been moved to tears by an emotional song, you already know the power of music.

Music therapy is a wonderful method without side effects that is sometimes used to improve emotional health, sometimes to relax people, sometimes to help patients cope with stress, and sometimes to and boost psychological well-being. There is a lot of research on music and health, and almost all of them show that music is very beneficial, and I love reading and sharing these studies.

A study shows that music therapy can be a safe and effective treatment method for various disorders, including depression. A study investigating the "Effects of music and music therapy on mood in neurological patients" found that music therapy is a safe, low-risk, and side-effect-free way to reduce depression and anxiety in patients suffering from neurological conditions such as dementia, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. Click to read the entire research.

Effects of music and music therapy on mood in neurological patients

Abstract
Mood disorder and depressive syndromes represent a common comorbid condition in neurological disorders with a prevalence rate that ranges between 20% and 50% of patients with stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Notwithstanding, these conditions are often under-diagnosed and under-treated in the clinical practice and negatively affect the functional recovery, the adherence to treatment, the quality of life, and even the mortality risk. In addition, a bidirectional association between depression and neurological disorders may be possible being that depressive syndromes may be considered as a risk factor for certain neurological diseases. Despite the large amount of evidence regarding the effects of music therapy (MT) and other musical interventions on different aspects of neurological disorders, no updated article reviewing outcomes such as mood, emotions, depression, activity of daily living and so on is actually available; for this reason, little is known about the effectiveness of music and MT on these important outcomes in neurological patients. The aim of this article is to provide a narrative review of the current literature on musical interventions and their effects on mood and depression in patients with neurological disorders. Searching on PubMed and PsycInfo databases, 25 studies corresponding to the inclusion criteria have been selected; 11 of them assess the effects of music or MT in Dementia, 9 explore the efficacy on patients with Stroke, and 5 regard other neurological diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/motor neuron disease, Chronic quadriplegia, Parkinson’s Disease, and Acquired Brain dysfunctions. Selected studies are based on relational and rehabilitative music therapy approaches or concern music listening interventions. Most of the studies support the efficacy of MT and other musical interventions on mood, depressive syndromes, and quality of life on neurological patients.

Core tip: We conducted a search on PubMed and PsychInfo databases identifying 25 Randomized Controlled Trials or Clinical Controlled Trials regarding the effects of Music Therapy and other musical interventions on mood disorders in neurological patients. Although the Jadad score evaluation revealed a generally poor methodological quality of the research protocols, we found that almost all studies supported the effectiveness of musical interventions in improving mood, depression, quality of life, functional recovery, and neuromotor performances. Therefore Music Therapy and other musical approaches seem to be effective, inexpensive and non-invasive, being that no adverse side-effects were observed.

CONCLUSION
Music-based activities can represent a valid and without side effects intervention for reducing psychological and behavioral disturbances related to neurological disorders and also for promoting the functional recovery. Specifically, the most significant results of the music interventions on the psychological side can be identified in the aspects more closely related to mood, especially in the reduction of the depressive and anxiety's component, and in the improvement of the emotional expression, communication and interpersonal skills, self esteem and quality of life. As revealed in advance, the efficacy of music and MT interventions could be explained by different points of view. From the neurochemistry point of view we know that music can activate limbic and paralimbic structures, such as the amygdala, the hippocampus, the nucleus accumbens, etc. that function abnormally in patients with a high depressive component. At the psychological level music can engage several social functions, can increase communication and social cohesion and can promote empathetic relationships, especially in the active MT approaches. Finally, from the rehabilitative point of view, making music can involve and influence motor areas functioning and regulation. This effect appears to be connected to the pleasure and thereby can positively affect the mood and consequently the rehabilitative process
Raglio A, Attardo L, Gontero G, Rollino S, Groppo E, Granieri E. Effects of music and music therapy on mood in neurological patients. World J Psychiatr 2015; 5(1): 68-78 [PMID: 25815256 DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v5.i1.68] Click for more and to read the entire article.

The research shows that music therapy can be a safe, effective and side-effect-free treatment method for various disorders, including depression. It also reveals that it reduces depression and anxiety in patients suffering from neurological disorders such as Dementia, Stroke and Parkinson's disease. Finally, the study above and many other studies on depression clearly show that music reduces symptoms of depression.

Frankly, I listen to all genres of music that pleases my ears, and depending on my current mood, the music I listen to is good for me, music increases my motivation and relaxes me. There are more than 6000 types of music in the world and everyone has the chance to find music that is good for them. I usually listen to classical music and meditation music to relax, they are good for me.

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